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(target shooting) The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where the projectile hit or burst.
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(military gunnery) Shortest distance between the center of impact or the center of burst of a group of shots, and the point of impact or burst of a single shot within the group.
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To improve the accuracy of (a gun).
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The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
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The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, or object, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, such as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it.
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(warfare) The practice of bombing ground targets during air raids.
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To attack a ground target through the use of aircraft or missiles.
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A vehicle or person that performs an airstrike.
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(firearms) The horizontal line which measures the distance to which a projectile is thrown; the range.
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(US, slang) A shooter's adjustment by aiming higher than the target's position in the sight to allow for the bullet's drop during travel rather than adjusting the sight.
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(video games) A feature on a joystick that permits automatic firing, as though the player were repeatedly pressing the fire button.
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(surveying) To shoot a backsight.
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(firearms) A dummy cartridge containing a small battery-operated laser, used to align the sights.
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The distance that the arrow of an average archer can effectively travel.
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(military) To gauge the range of a target by firing equally short and long of it and ranging the weapon between the two to achieve a very accurate hit.
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(firearms) a sight mount with a strong metal frame between the rings, used on large-caliber rifles to negate the effects of recoil on accuracy.
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(US, military) A code phrase indicating that a ground unit is facing imminent destruction from enemy attack and all available air forces within range are to provide air support immediately.
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Alternative form of bullseye [(military, firearms) The centre of a target, inside the inner and magpie.]
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A shot which hits the centre of a target.
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To attack with a car bomb
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To bomb an area in such a manner that the ordnance covers the entire area without gaps.
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(idiomatic) A political party or other group experiencing considerable disarray because the members are engaging in internal disputes and mutual recrimination.
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(military) Lines of fire from multiple positions that cross in a small region
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(weaponry) A discharge of a taser.
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Synonym of bomb shot (“type of mixed drink”)
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The aiming and firing of a projectile at a target in line of sight from the weapon.
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A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore.
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Alternative form of double tap (“to shoot twice”). [To shoot twice.]
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The area that a projectile weapon (or group of weapons) can reach from a given position.
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(video games) A button on a joystick or joypad that corresponds to the action of firing a weapon, but often represents other in-game actions.
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(military) A plan of attack or siege using an array of firearms
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(historical) A 5.9-inch artillery shell of the kind used by Germany in World War I.
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(military, by extension) The undesirable situation where the separate missiles from a MIRV interfere with each other as they explode.
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(mathematics) In the Conway's Game of Life cellular automaton, any pattern that "fires" out gliders.
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(military, slang) for a powered, usually guided missile or other aerial vehicle to travel on an unguided or ballistic trajectory, having lost power, control or guidance
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(of a missile) Fired from the ground at a target on the ground.
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Alternative form of gun line [(military) the tactical firing position of artillery or naval guns]
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The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun; the reach or range of a gun.
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(electrical) An interrupter in which contact is broken by the movement of an automatically vibrating hammer between a contact piece and an electromagnet, or of a rapidly moving piece mechanically driven.
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(uncountable, military) Enemy fire directed at oneself.
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(US, military) Bombs or missiles that inadvertently strike friendly forces or sites.
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An interception of a missile.
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(military, historical, naval slang) A kind of hand-held slide rule used for predicting the location of a target based on its current and recent positions.
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(US, slang) An adjustment made by a shooter to correct for wind (or motion of the target) by aiming at a point horizontal to the target's position in the sight rather than by adjusting the sight to compensate.
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(military, weaponry) direction in which a weapon fires
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Alternative form of loitering munition [(military, weaponry) A munition, often a UAV, that waits passively around the target area and attacks only once a target is located.]
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(military, weaponry) A munition, often a UAV, that waits passively around the target area and attacks only once a target is located.
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(UK, military) A test of marksmanship with 15 aimed shots at a 12-inch target at 200 yards within one minute.
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A target for shooting at with a projectile.
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(transitive, military, slang) To attack with MIRV missiles.
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Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet. [from 17th c.]
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One who launches missiles.
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(obsolete) Serving as a missile; intended to be thrown.
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(video game, slang) A grenade.
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Alternative form of nail bomb [A bomb designed to cause extensive wounding by packing sharp objects around the explosive; used especially by terrorists and suicide bombers.]
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(by extension) Any place where a major confrontation, particularly involving guns, takes place. Often used in conjunction with the words showdown or shootout.
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A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
adj
The distance between a gun and a target such that it requires minimal effort in aiming it. In particular no allowance needs to be made for effects of gravity, target movement or wind in aiming the projectile.
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(ballistics) The distance between a firearm and a target where a projectile in flight is expected to strike the centre of the target without adjusting the elevation of the firearm.
adj
(military) Employing the cold launch technique.
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(physics) any object propelled through space by the application of a force.
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(obsolete) The full range of a bullet or other projectile; hence, the angle at which a weapon is tilted to allow the greatest range.
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An area for practicing shooting at targets.
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(US) A gun control law permitting police or family members to petition a state court to order the temporary removal of firearms from a person who may present a danger to others or themselves.
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(video games) To perform a jump by blasting a rocket launcher in close proximity to one's character.
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(UK, military, historical) stabilized automatic bombsight
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intense bombing of a military target with the aim of destroying it
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(of a missile) fired from ship at a target on the ground
adj
(of a missile) fired from a ship at another ship
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Synonym of double rifle. Ellipsis of side-by-side rifle.
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A trial shot in rifle, artillery shooting, or sports like football, to set the range, targeting etc.
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A military attack which is based on detecting suspicious activity rather than confirmed intelligence of terrorism.
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(of a firearm) fitted with a silencer
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A long-range rifle, usually equipped with a telescopic sight and often a night vision device.
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Alternative form of soft point [(of a bullet) having an exposed lead point, designed to expand when it hits its target and therefore cause more damage.]
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(dated, military, of gunners) To persist in faithfully attending to cannons while under fire.
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(military) A pair or salvo of successive artillery shots falling both in front of and behind a target.
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An attack of machine-gun or cannon fire from a low-flying aircraft.
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(colloquial) The destruction of tanks by military aircraft.
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A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
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Any exercise in which projectiles are fired at a specified target, typically for the purpose of improving aim.
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Someone who tests the accuracy of weapons, especially by firing them at calibrated targets.
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A person who selects targets (typically for a remote weapons system).
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Alternative form of targeteer (one armed with a target or shield) [Someone who tests the accuracy of weapons, especially by firing them at calibrated targets.]
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(US, slang) An adjustment made by a shooter to correct for wind (or motion of the target) by aiming at a point horizontal to the target's position in the sight rather than by adjusting the sight to compensate.
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(military) An act of terrorbombing.
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(military) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
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(military) The dropping of a series of bombs one after another.
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An instrument once used to track bullets in a body, through the entrance wound
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(artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
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Having a trigger that reacts to some specific condition.
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(ballistics) Horizontal adjustment of the sight of a firearm or bow.
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